Endless Flow of Ideas

In order to set yourself for success as an entrepreneur, you need to be very passionate about what you do. However, in this age, the competition is fierce. Passion alone isn’t enough. You need to be really smart and creative about everything you do. Let me share with you the “secret” of this endless flow of ideas.

Recently, I started to have this “entrepreneurial attitude” and the urge to challenge myself in so many different ways. It is hard to identify the main reason that started it all. However, slowly, it built up to this aggressive and burning desire to read any and everything I put my hands on.

Once I started reading with passion, I noticed a lot of exciting changes in how I perceive things and how I think in general. The number one thing that came to my attention right then was to share my experience, because I believe that this is how the world improves. So, to ignite my motivation as well as yours, I started to do more research on the benefits of reading. Instead of writing every single benefit here, I think that Glen Stansberry has a good summary that you should check out.

So what? How do I have endless flow of ideas? Robin Dickinson discussed so many ways to generate ideas in part1 and part2 of his series. Although some of these methods are repeated, I believe that he touched on very crucial issues. So, what’s my answer? I think Dickinson agrees with me, but the number one answer is to constantly feed your mind.

Your mind is where creative ideas are generated. This mind is like a CPU in computer system. It needs input in order to have output. The more input you give it, the more processing it’ll do, and the more output it’ll have. There are so many ways to “feed” your mind. For example, try reading books, listening to audio sessions, watching online lectures, or attending seminars.

Today, I stumbled across a very inspiring post about how to read a book a week in 2010 by Julien Smith. This post helped me raise the bar for my readings. So, I will start reading a book a week until something convinces me not to. And NO, this is NOT my new year’s resolution. I don’t believe in that. If you are strong enough to do something great for your life, you don’t need to wait for a new year to do so.

What do you think? How do you feed your mind? How often do you read?

5 Responses to “Endless Flow of Ideas”

1. Robin Dickinson says:

   January 3, 2010 at 2:40 AM

   Excellent post, Khaled, and thanks for mentioning the ‘endless flow of ideas’ posts.

   Reading is a huge part of my harvesting of top quality inputs and I usually aim to read 40-50 high quality books a year, from a wide range of genres.

   It helps that I haven’t watched TV for years. This has freed up many hundreds of hours.

   I look forward to hearing about the books you have read this year.

   All the best to you, Robin

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   • Khaled Hussein says:

     January 3, 2010 at 2:56 AM

     Robin,

     My current books-to-read list includes:
     Drive by Daniel H. Pink
     Who’s got your back? by Keith Ferrazzi
     Free by Chris Anderson

     If you have any suggestions, let me know .

     Thanks for the feedback.

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2. Glen Stansberry says:

   January 5, 2010 at 10:43 AM

   Thanks so much for including a link to my LifeDev article Khaled. I’ve found much of the same things that you have with regular reading. It feeds the mind like no other!

   But I love what you said about the biggest benefit of reading on a consistent basis: you start to think clearly.

   Well put!

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3. Personality development says:

   May 22, 2010 at 3:37 PM

   Hi, can I use part of the info found in this post if I put a link back to your blog?

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   • Khaled Hussein says:

     June 6, 2010 at 4:34 PM

     Sure

     Reply